BREAKING: An Iran Health Ministry spokesman says the new coronavirus has killed 43 people amid 593 confirmed cases in the Islamic Republic.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An Iranian Health Ministry spokesman on Saturday said the new coronavirus has killed 43 people amid 593 confirmed cases in the Islamic Republic.Iran has the world’s highest death toll outside of China, the epicenter of the outbreak. The new figures from Iran this pushes the total cases in the Middle East to over 720.
Earlier Saturday, Bahrain threatened legal prosecution against travelers who came from Iran and hadn’t been tested for the new coronavirus, and also barred public gatherings for two weeks. All of Bahrain’s cases link back to Iran, whose death toll of 34 killed is the worst outside of China, the epicenter of the virus., and experts fear that number may be far greater, something Iranian officials themselves have begun to hint.
The ministry “affirmed that the required legal proceedings would be taken against anyone who returned from Iran in February and didn’t call to make appointments for the tests,” the Interior Ministry said. “It highlighted that preventing the outbreak of the infection is the responsibility of individuals and society as a whole.”
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